Guiding Principles and Community Norms

The Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems network is a national food waste research network bringing together over 40 researchers and 15 institutions and other partners across the country working to advance the science needed to make our wasteful food system sustainable, equitable, and resilient.

With such a large and diverse network of people, institutions, and disciplines collaborating together, it was important for us to co-create protocols to help us work together while remaining accountable to our ideals and goals. Beginning with our network kick-off meetings in November 2021 and continuing through a collective process involving a series of virtual and in-person facilitated design sessions, we collectively defined this set of Guiding Principles and Community Norms. The result of our nearly yearlong, collaborative process itself embodies the first of our Guiding Principles – co-creation of knowledge – breaking down silos, and transcending boundaries of disciplines and hierarchies.